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An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition. In 1829, Samuel Wood and Sons, a New York publisher of children's literature, printed and sold the Quaker Abigail Field Mott's Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano. Mott adapted Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative, a bestselling autobiography first published in London in 1789, for Black children ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) is one of the most frequently and heatedly discussed texts in the canon of eighteenth-century transatlantic literature written in English. This collection of essays focuses explicitly on the various classroom contexts in which the Narrative can be assigned and various pedagogical strategies that can be used to help students understand the text and its complex cultural, intellectua...

From the 1760s to Barack Obama, this collection offers fresh looks at classic African American life narratives, highlights neglected African American lives, texts, and genres, and discusses the diverse outpouring of twenty-first-century memoirs.